Ragweed season is upon us.
How do I know? Did I read something about it? (Like what you’re doing now?)
No.
Did someone tell me about it?
No.
Did I just feel it in the wind?
Well maybe. What it is is, I found out the hard way!
I opened a window to get some fresh air and wound up sneezing my life away. One. Two. Three. Four. Five sneezes in a row. Wow! I needed this like I needed a hole in my head. Which is what I thought I now had because a super headache was starting to build over my right eye socket. Part of the ole sinus-passageways-getting-irritated thing.
What did I do? Shut the window tight! Turned on the air filters! And then?
Took some form of pharmaceutical antihistamine concoction? No way! Poisonous stuff!
Instead, I reached for a peppermint tea bag. Pressed it up against my nostrils and breathed in deeply. Once. Twice. Three times. And again. Once. Twice. Three times. It actually worked. Within a few minutes, I could breathe normally again. No more sneezing. No more stuffiness. Headache easing off. Amazing stuff! Peppermint, that is.
So now I carry a peppermint tea bag in my shirt pocket and repeat the procedure as needed throughout the day.
Meanwhile, I wait for a nice rainshower or a thunderstorm or a hurricane with gail force winds to blow away the noxious pollen. At least, until ragweed season ends.
[ Photo: Courtesy of http://www.achooallergy.com/ragweed-season.asp ]
